any suggestions for a healthy dessert?

Answer 1

Fresh fruit is one of the healthiest desserts around. Try peaches with fresh mint leaves and a little vanilla frozen yogurt. It's a great summer treat.

Answer 2

strawberry shortcake. well the way I make it is, is You go your local grocery store, and near were the gruit are, or in the baked goods section, there should be these little fruit cups, theyre kind of like a pound cake but much likghter, circled shaped with kind of a bowl thing in the middle. I take one, then take fresh strawberries and cute them into about 4 slices for each. Strawberries, well take as many as youd like. Up to you. Then i scatter them around the bowl area of the fruit cup, and also around the plate that it is on. Then, take the lightest whipped cream that you have, and put it on the top of the fruit cup. and maybe around the plate. this is a VERY refreshing and tasy desert :-). Which you can make which any other fruits. mix or combine. tastes fabulous. oh yes, and be sure to put a cherry on top.

Answer 3

Well, you've had so many good ideas already, but by now you will have guessed that the only interesting and healthy dessert you can get is a fruit salad.

Sod all that, my favourite dessert is white chocolate fondue, strawberries to dip it in, a couple of chilled glasses of champagne and your favourite man to share it with!

Answer 4

Fruit probably is the healthiest, as so many people have said. But it's a bit obvious... How about making this Terrine of Summer Fruits from Delia Smith - looks stunning and doesn't add many calories to the plain fruit. Unless you serve it with lashings of cream.

Answer 5

I know other people have said fresh fruit-but thats what always comes to my mind when I think healthy+dessert.

Answer 6

In a large bowl combine a container of raspberries, a container of blueberries, a container of blackberries and a container of sliced strawberries. In a small bowl mix 1 tablespoon of honey with 2 tablespoons of orange liqueor. Drizzle dressing on berries and mix lightly.
This is great on its own, but to jazz it up a bit you could serve it with a small scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Answer 7

Here's a great list of healthy dessert recipes:
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/55/65614.htm

Enjoy!

Answer 8

Fresh fruit topped with toasted museli Greek yoghurt and honey preferbly Greek

Answer 9

Peaches and Cream

1 peach, chopped in small chunks into a bowl
8 drops of almond extract
cream to partly cover
Sally Fallon combines almond extract with peaches for a nice flavor combination. Here, we add raw cream for nutritional balance. Stir well to mix in the strongly flavored almond extract.

Dates and Pecans

1 or 2 dates
1/3 cup of pecans
cream to partly cover
Pit and chop dates into small pieces. Add pecans and stir till date pieces are well distributed. Add cream.

Chocolate and Banana

Approximately a 1x2-inch rectangle of unsweetened dark chocolate (Rapunzel and Dagoba are two good types of chocolate bars)
1 banana
In the baking section of the supermarket, you'll find unsweetened chocolate for baking. (This isn't exactly whole food, but at least it doesn't have added sweeteners or synthetics, and it's as close as we temperate clime folks can get to the cacao pods.) Ghirardelli's is the most convenient for this, but any kind of unsweetened "baking chocolate" will do. Simply alternate bites of the chocolate with bites of banana, pear or another not-too-acidic fruit. That's it, other than just alternate bites to balance flavors.

Chocolate From Marz

1 frozen banana (first peeled and cut into chunks)
A 1- to 2-inch square of unsweetened (baking) chocolate
A dash of nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon of vanilla
1 tablespoon of flaxseeds
2 tablespoons of walnuts
2 tablespoons of water
Naturopathic physician Russell Marz, ND agreed to share this recipe with me, which is especially helpful for the high-quality omega-3 fatty acids contained in the flax and walnuts as well as the antioxidants that have been found in chocolate. Mix all ingredients in a high-powered blender till consistent. This dessert has a chunky ice cream-like texture. For birthday celebrations it would make a good substitute for cake and ice cream.

The Simplest Recipe of All: Whole Fruit Popsicles

Peaches, plums, nectarines, watermelon, honeydew or cantaloupe
Popsicle molds
Don't forget about the kids altogether. The whole fruit that you may give them for a snack is all the yummier on a summer afternoon when frozen on a popsicle stick. Any of the above fruits works quite well. Cut the fruit into small chunks, and stuff them into popsicle molds. Kids enjoy making their own popsicles, so let even the little ones do this job. Just make sure you pack the fruit in tight, eliminating air pockets. Freeze for at least a few hours.

No Insulin Spikes

The whole foods mentioned in this article do not elicit an insulin spike as do concentrated fruit and fruit juice, because they have all the fiber of the whole food to slow the entry of natural sugars to the bloodstream. The real damage of typical sugared desserts is to elevate your insulin, which itself is certain high risk for heart disease and atherosclerosis.

In contrast, when the bounties of nature take the shortest path from the earth to your mouth, that is, not passing through a food processing plant in an industrial park before they get to you, you are giving your body what humans have needed for countless generations.

Let your occasional dessert indulgence be as natural and compatible with your body as the rest of your food. If you put whole foods together correctly, they can be quite delicious, and not upset your optimal biochemical balance.

Answer 10

mango meringue fool

1 large ripe mango
125g carton low fat cheese
30g icing sugar
4 meringue nests
200ml carton half fat creme fraiche

peel skinoff mango, then remove fleash from stone whiz in a blender till smooth. In a bowl beat cheese and sugar and gradually beat in mango
crumble meringue nests ans layer up with mango fool and creme fraiche in glasses.

its fairly healthy and mango is a 'super food'